In today’s healthcare environment providers face significant challenges to address both payers’ requirements and demographic changes. Pressure from both payers and healthcare authorities increases to improve hospital efficiency and value delivered to patients. At the same time, ageing populations and increasing burden of non-communicable diseases are changing the nature of healthcare services delivered. The World […]
The rise of medical tourism in Asia over the last few years has been phenomenal. Along with the huge opportunity for growth, it also brought along a need for Asian healthcare providers to meet world-class standards of patient care in order to attract patients from the developed nations, especially USA. This change has been particularly […]
In Asia, the share of population above 65 years old is rapidly increasing and the region will be home to half of the world’s elderly and bear half the global burden of chronic conditions by 2030. Compounding this demand side challenge, growth in working-age population is not keeping pace. In China alone, by 2050, the working-age […]
In most instances, a cardiologist has no idea what the patient’s gastroenterologist is doing – and they are so focused on treating the heart or the liver that they sometimes forget that these belong to a human being! The only way to reform the healthcare ecosystem, would be to make it patient-centric. Patients (or their […]
The movement to grow Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs) in the United States is now more than 600-member strong. The movement of late has been spearheaded by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under its Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). What exactly is an ACO? An ACO, as defined by CMS, refers to […]
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